Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴ Remember me, O Eternal One, when You show kindness to Your people;
    don’t forget me when You are saving them.
⁵ That way I can know how good it is to be Your chosen people;
    that way I can celebrate the joy of Your nation;
    that way I can join those who belong to You in unending praise.

⁶ Like our ancestors, we have sinned;
    we have done wicked things.
⁷ When our ancestors were leaving Egypt,
    they did not consider Your marvelous acts.
They forgot Your overwhelming kindness to them
    and instead rebelled at the Red Sea.^[a]
8 Nevertheless, God saved them for the honor of His name
    so He could show His power to the world.
⁹ He gave the order, and the waters of the Red Sea dried up,
    and He led the people across the sea floor as though it were the wilderness.
¹⁰ That’s how He liberated them from their enemies
    and rescued them from the hand of their oppressors.
¹¹ After that the sea surged and covered their foes,
    and every one of them drowned in its waters.
¹² When God’s people saw what He did, they believed what He said
    and they sang praises to Him.

¹² Wake up, wake up, Deborah!
    Wake up, wake up, and sing!
Get up, Barak! Get up and carry off your captives,
    O son of Abinoam!
¹³ Then down went a surviving people to those who were noble,
    and the Eternal One marched to me with the mighty!
¹⁴ People with roots in Ephraim went down against the Amalekites after you, O Benjamin,
    with your people.
From Machir marched those commanders,
    and from Zebulun went those carrying the staff of a scribe.
¹⁵ The chiefs of Issachar came with Deborah;
    Issachar was faithful to Barak,
And they rushed into the valley, close at his heels.
    And the clans of Reuben wondered in their heart,
¹⁶ “Why did you remain idle and aloof in the sheepfolds?
    To hear whistling for the flocks?”
And the clans of Reuben wondered in their heart,
¹⁷ “Why did those of Gilead remain beyond the Jordan?
    Why did the people of Dan stay with their ships?
“Why did the people of Asher stay on the coast,
    settling down where they landed?”
¹⁸ But Zebulun did not fear death,
    and Naphtali, too, stared down death on the heights where the battle raged.

¹⁹ The kings came, they fought;
    the kings of Canaan made war.
They fought at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo,
    but they won no spoils of silver.
²⁰ The stars themselves fought against them;
    from the heavens, the stars fought against Sisera.
²¹ The raging waters of Kishon swept them away,
    the rushing waters, the raging waters of Kishon.
    March forward, my soul, march on with strength!